A/N: Ok, screw it I'm finishing this story without the reviews or not, It was calling to me… but to show you how evil I am…I'll tell you the actual ending in the Epilogue. But I won't tell you if you don't review. So…muahaha.
Disclaimer: Tired of writing the same thing so read the first ten chapters for disclaimers.
Aliens Vs. The Flood
Chapter Eleven – The End
Hive
The Queen sensed a death in the Hive mind, but she couldn't pinpoint the location and who did it.
"Damn humans…as soon as I kill them, I'll have to take care of the Flood."
"My Queen, dawn approaches." A warrior said as it came to her.
"Ready my children. I'll be out in a second."
"Yes, my Queen."
The Queen let out a screech of pain as she once again dislodged herself from her cocoon and she walked outside of the ship and several hundred of her children were lined up, ready for her command.
"My children, those humans will be defeated and we'll kill every last one of them!"
"My Queen…" one said, stepping out of line.
She looked back, seeming to stare him down.
"Won't we want to use them for hosts?"
Then she realized that this particular child acted like it was born yesterday. As a matter of fact, it was.
The Queen lifted her tail and skewered the child and tossed it to the ground, dead.
"Never question me…"
All her children still there were suddenly overtaken by fear and stood perfectly still.
"My children…the humans and Flood have taken the lives of your brothers and sisters. Feel the anger I feel…"
The children's head's began to glow green as did the Queen's headpiece, she was turning them into a frenzied group. The children saw several attacks in their mind. From Flood, to the three warriors killing dozens. Those three warriors were Nek'ttir, Gonama'ee, and Master Chief.
"One of our kind had joined their side and fights with them. Kill the traitor!"
They all shouted screeches and war cries and started quivering and drooling, becoming merciless killing machines.
"As for the Flood, we'll destroy them as soon as the humans are dead!"
Then they began to run, as if a gun was just shot off to start a race, and the Queen was leading them.
"My noble Carriers, lead the way with me, come to my side."
Inside the Hive
Six salmon colored Aliens awoke and stretched inside a Hive room, and walked to the egg chamber. Each had six spikes on their backs, which could hold twelve facehuggers. They approached several eggs and picked up the sleeping facehuggers inside. They placed them on their shoulders and they facehuggers crawled to the spikes to replenish their energy and wait for a host to come by. After doing this until each had retrieved twelve, now combined they carried a total of seventy-two facehuggers.
With their load, they ran as fast as they could and headed out to join the front lines.
On the way, several hundred Flood joined the ranks and the two species ran together, determined to kill the humans then kill each other.
Covenant Base
John walked to the lab to see Kelly put on her helmet and she turned to him. She then nodded to him and he nodded to her.
"Good to see you, Kelly."
"Good to see you too, John."
John and she stood like that for a few minutes, staring at each other's helmets, when Nek'ttir walked in.
"Master Chief, Gonama'ee has found out something."
Master Chief nodded and headed outside with Nek'ttir, shaking his head at Nek'ttir for his bad timing.
They found Gonama'ee who was growling at something.
"What is it, Arbiter?" Nek'ttir asked.
"Someone is here, not just someone, but several creatures."
"Camouflaged serpents?"
"No, something else."
Nek'ttir looked around then suddenly; everyone in the facility outside had several dozen plasma cannon sights on them, all except Nek'ttir.
Dozens of Predators uncloaked at that point, and no one in the facility moved. The main gate opened and in came the Elder that had saved Nek'ttir from before. Nek'ttir turned to the Elder, and began walking towards him as the Elder did the same.
"What does he want, Nek'ttir?' Gonama'ee asked.
"I don't know."
The met each other and placed their right fist over their hearts with their arm across their chest.
"Elder…"
"Nek'ttir the Honored, we've come to take you back to the ship and to go home, this world is lost to us, and there is no need for you to be here anymore
"I'm not just fighting for myself and the thrills of the hunt anymore, these people are my friends."
"The only friends you need are your own kind. We hunt creatures like the ones you stay with, where in the God's names did you ever get the urge to stay and live with prey?"
"These are people in danger, sure they carry guns and can defend themselves, but the serpents and the other species known as the Flood will attack at any moment know because they know we won't be able to stand an attack."
"Nek'ttir!" one of the last Elites called.
"What is it?"
"Several serpents approach, along with Flood at their side, and the Queen leads them."
"No!"
Nek'ttir teleported to the sniper position and looked into it. Sure enough, they were coming.
"Arbiter? What are we going to do?"
"We'll have to fight them off!" Gonama'ee shouted.
"That's suicide! We'll never win!"
"Not alone…but together…" Nek'ttir said, facing the Elder.
The leader looked at his men, and put lifted his left arm straight up and palm flat, so it was vertical with the ground.
All the Predator's tracking beam was lowered.
"I've got several more Predators than just these Hunters…My Blazers and Hydras will assist you as well."
"Good…we'll need them."
Master Chief turned to his Spartans.
"This will be it, if we don't win this one, we're done after this. We'll all be dead. So let's go and win for the human race."
The Spartans all nodded and stood up, preparing their weapons and several different grenades.
"Gonama'ee…" Natus'ii walked up to him. So did Turaga'uu and the remaining Covenant forces.
Then they began to talk of a plan of attack.
"Chief, do you think we'll make it?" Cortana asked with concern.
"I don't know, but if they breach the gate, then we'll have to leave and take everyone with us."
"Chief, if they breach and we leave, I can breach the onboard computers in each of the Phantoms and detonate them. That'll dwindle their forces."
"Good, hopefully we won't have to use it."
Master Chief, Gonama'ee, and Nek'ttir gathered at the gate and marched out on the front lines, in front of the army of Predators and the remaining Spartans. All the remaining Elites were sniping and already taking out some of the attackers. But a rocket shot was heard coming from the incoming army.
"Duck!" Gonama'ee shouted everyone did as told and it hit the gate, taking out the sniper.
"Damn…"
They all ran out with the Predators leading the way, everyone stayed back as six upgraded Blazer Predators and six upgraded Hydras walked out in front and began to prepare their attacks. In their helmets, they could see red background, with green and serpents and yellow Flood, and their tracking beams lit up. The Blazers released their heat beams and melted a few away, and the Hydras shot of several dozen barrages of PredAliens, Drones, and one Carrier. The twelve facehuggers jumped off the dead Carrier and headed for the Blazers and Hydras. Several Spear Master Predators jumped in front and blocked and killed all of the facehuggers and protected the Hydra's and Blazers. A rocket was heard and it hit a Blazer, who stood there defiantly, but heard his armor start to crack. Another rocket was shot from one of the Flood and it took out the Blazer. Then that side that the Blazer was holding back broke through and charged the line. Spear Masters, Vanguards, and Hunters joined the fight to keep the line alive. The Spartans joined in too and Nek'ttir, Gonama'ee, and Master Chief where always in the middle. Just then the firing stopped as the Queen approached and saw a Spartan still firing at her dead young. It was Lance.
"Lance! Move!" Master Chief shouted as he ran towards Lance.
Lance looked up just in time to be skewered by the Queen's tail and was lifted in her face. She tossed Lance aside, and the Queen let out a roar and her young attacked.
Master Chief looked up to see Brian attacking several at a time. He could see his other Spartans. The Queen was heading for Kelly. Master Chief ran to Kelly and pulled her away and the Queen gave chase. Master Chief pulled out his Rocket Launcher and shot the Queen right in the face. She backed off and found the Predator Elder, who finished killing a Flood Combat Form.
They stared at each other and the Predator Elder removed his cloak, and pulled out his spear. All the others around them were occupied with each other. The Queen lashed out her tail and she missed as the Elder jumped and brought out his disk and threw it at her head, it chipped off a part of her headpiece, but she clawed him right in the back. The Elder looked back and speared her hand as she tried again, and she retaliated by tripping him with her tail. She then got her other arm and scooped him up in her grasp with his arms tucked in his side. The Carrier forms were gradually weakening the Predators as many had fallen to facehugger attack.
Nek'ttir saw this and teleported to the two. The Queen looked on and realized this was the one who was killing all her young. She looked back at the Elder and then back at Nek'ttir. She threw the Elder into the air and skewered him mid-air, then brought him down to the ground with her tail and crushed him. She then pulled out her tail and skewered him with her claws on her good hand. As she did this, she lowered her head and was face-to-face with Nek'ttir, and she was drooling and her lips quivering. Nek'ttir headed straight for her and materialized a spear in his hand and attacked her.
Some of the Blazers and Hydras fell and they started to pull back, most of the Predators had taken down the Carriers and now the escaped facehuggers lunged at them. Flood were shooting left and right with various weapons and were dwindling the numbers of the Predators.
"Move back! Move back!" Master Chief shouted in his helmet. Everybody started slowly backing up to the gate and two Elites held the door open. Everyone except the Predators had gotten inside, one by one they went inside, and Nek'ttir heard the call and teleported to the gate. Gonama'ee was inside, and Master Chief was making his way, carrying Lance on his back. Lance wasn't dead, but he was on the verge of losing all his blood, and they didn't have time to heal him.
"John…let me down." Lance said weakly.
"No…we can save you…you'll be fine."
"It's too late for me, John. I've got a plasma grenade and I'll take some of them with me."
"We can save you!"
Lance had heard enough, he pushed himself off and fell to the ground and Master Chief turned around immediately, but Lance activated the grenade as soon as he dropped and took out a few of the followers. Master Chief ran on, determined to get out of their. He used his Rocket Launcher to push incoming attackers back, and emptied it out at Flood and Alien attackers.
Master Chief jumped into the door, and realized some of his Spartans were still out there, two of them. Lisa and Jack.
Lisa and Jack fought back to back, killing off the attackers and keeping them from getting to the door. Master Chief called out to them and then several Predators joined their side to keep the Flood and Aliens away.
Then the doors shut.
Master Chief was pulled away and into a Phantom then the Phantom's door locked in place.
"No!"
John pounded on the door to let him out and assist his team. But Dr. Halsey had put a hand on his shoulder and he stopped.
"John, there's nothing you could do…you could've died along with them, and we need you…"
"But if I was there I could've saved them…"
Dr. Halsey then turned to see Turaga'uu trying to start the ship.
"We may be able to take off but we won't get far…this ship was damaged too much from the recent fights."
Shots were heard, Predator war cries along with Flood and Alien cries mixed in.
"We'll have to thank them for their support later." Dr. Halsey said. The Phantom lifted off the ground and they flew off and over a canyon, then they began to shake and rattle.
"Turaga'uu! Report!" Natus'ii called.
"Main engines lost all it's power; we're crashing on the other side of this canyon. So buckle up!"
Nek'ttir had slowed the ship down enough to where it wouldn't land so hard but as it landed, everyone flew around for awhile.
At the site of the Covenant Base
The Aliens and Flood all looked at each other, angry at one another.
"My children…" the Queen called.
"Change in plans…"
At the crash site
Master Chief had been flung out the front window and some of the other Spartans had too. Many of the occupants were all in the ship, just unconscious.
Master Chief got up and looked across the canyon and saw the Flood and serpents attacking one another.
"What the?"
At the site of the Covenant Base
The Queen finished off the last one and saw that the humans landed on the other side.
"My children go to the other host gathering species' home and destroy them all.
She then contacted her Ravagers at her Hive nest.
"Come to me, my children."
The Ravagers looked up to the ceiling and began making their way to the entrance and started to slowly make their way.
Then the Queen looked away from the humans. They wouldn't get far, and she would catch them.
At the crash site
Master Chief sighed from a breath he didn't realize he was holding.
"What will happen, Chief?" Cortana asked.
"She'll come when she's ready to attack, which means we have time to make camp and recuperate."
John looked around and everyone started to come to. Nek'ttir awoke with a large headache and Gonama'ee had to heal himself on some Hive Web.
There were no more marines. John, Kelly, and Brian where the only Spartans left. Dr. Halsey was ok. There was only Natus'ii, Gonama'ee, and Turaga'uu left for the Covenant. Nek'ttir and one Blazer, two Hydra, one Spear Master, and one Hunter were left for the Predators.
John had created a fire from some of the Predator supplies and Gonama'ee kept watch that night as the others slept.
"Arbiter, your shift is over, get some rest. We'll need it for tomorrow, when we face the Queen."
"That's not Master Chief's plan…"
"What? We can defeat her, she's alone."
"No…she's calling her Ravagers to her side and their going to storm us."
"How do you know?"
"I am still part serpent, I can hear her thoughts."
"Then we better warn Master Chief…"
"Agreed…"
The next morning, the group heard the Queen's roar, and that woke everyone up immediately.
"Arbiter, what is it?" Dr. Halsey asked.
"It's the Queen, she's gathered sixteen Ravagers to her side, and she's going to storm us."
Everyone saw the Queen roar and she, along with the Ravagers jump off the cliff and she touched ground, making a huge crater, but she started running with all her might, with her Ravagers next to her, making their way to the other side.
"What do we do…Arbiter?" Master Chief asked.
"We'll need to get back to the serpent's ship and destroy it. With Cortana, she can hack into the main frame now that 16807 was destroyed."
"How will we get over to it? It's on the side we just came from." Natus'ii asked.
"We'll have to take care of the Queen. We'll have to destroy her here and now." Nek'ttir said.
"Fine, but we'll have to take care of her guardians." Master Chief said.
"We'll handle that." Nek'ttir said to them and then talked it over with his Predator friends.
Nek'ttir teleported the group about 200 feet in front of the approaching Queen and her Ravagers, and waited.
Master Chief and the others waited and watched as the angry Aliens made their way and closed the gap.
Nek'ttir opened fire with a psychic surge of energy and pushed them back, the Hunter Predator shot a few shots that damaged the armor around one Ravager a little bit. The disk master let his disk go and cut into another's armor. When the Ravagers were in range, one was killed from concentrated attack and another was badly wounded. The Predators all attacked and so did the Ravagers. One Hydra was killed almost instantly when they began fighting. The Queen let them attack and continued running to the cliff. Nek'ttir teleported himself in front of the Queen and she stopped then looked down at him.
Nek'ttir delivered a punch to her with his enhanced psychic abilities to her brow and she flew into a column of rock. The rock started to break and it toppled on top of her. She broke out of the rubble and smacked Nek'ttir into a wall, and then she charged him and held him in the wall with a clawed hand. Then she threw him over her shoulder and he hit the ground. Nek'ttir was winded but he got up and she began climbing the wall. By now, only 9 Ravagers were left but the last of the remaining Predators were dead, save Nek'ttir. Nek'ttir tried to get to the Queen but he had to take out the Ravagers first, so he let her go and focused his attention on the threats in front of him. Nek'ttir grabbed a spear and lodged it in one of the Ravager's heads, ducked a swipe from another, and skewered another Ravager with another spear that he willed in his hand.
The Queen was getting barraged by various weapons, but she kept coming up the cliffside. Master Chief knew they had to stop her, so he grabbed Natus'ii's energy sword and jumped down the cliff edge. He landed on her back and stabbed the sword in her back. She howled and let go of the cliff, and fell with Master Chief still on. She hit the ground and Master Chief rolled with the fall, so he landed safely.
The Queen got up and charged at Master Chief. He was swiped and his shields disappeared almost to zero, and he backed away from her as she charged and he dodged her claws and feet and tail. His shields came back up and she charged, while Master Chief dodged her and sliced her side. She let out a screech as her blood began to seep through her cuts.
Nek'ttir dodged another attack but was struck on the back with the blades, and he was bleeding. Nek'ttir kicked a Ravager's head then shot it at point blank range with a psychic beam. It fell to the ground, blood eating the ground where it lay. Nek'ttir turned to a Ravager that was about to strike a deathblow but was stopped by Gonama'ee as he lunged at the attacking Ravager and bit down on it's arm. The Ravager turned to Gonama'ee and began attacking him, but Gonama'ee was faster and Gonama'ee attacked it and killed it.
"Good to see you join us, Gonama'ee." Nek'ttir said to him in his thoughts.
"Let's kill the rest of these guys and help Master Chief."
Nek'ttir nodded and they attacked the others.
Flood Base
The approaching army of Aliens reached the Flood base and ran inside, killing the unsuspecting Flood that got in their way. Flood began to retaliate, and killed several of the Aliens, but there were just too many. The Flood fought them back but they were slowly making their way to the Flood's main chamber.
The Aliens poured into the main chamber with all the Flood that was sleeping before, and these Flood only had their hands so they attacked back and forth. Fighting and chaos ruled this room and soon the Flood in here were defeated, but the Flood had built many rooms and so the Aliens went their separate ways to try and find as many Flood as they could.
But now they were spread too thin and the Flood began to overwhelm the small groups the Alien's were being pushed back and the Flood were gaining the upper hand. But then the Aliens regrouped and thought better this time and went together in the same room. But Flood did the same so when the two armies met in the main tunnel, the Aliens and Flood were pushed together to kill each other and get it over with, so no one was moving. Then the Aliens broke through and ran to the Flood's hall and attacked the propagator of the species and Flood came from all over the main rooms and small rooms to keep the mother alive. As it turns out, the real mother was hiding in the shadows. Her tentacles wrapped around some unsuspecting Aliens and she threw them against the wall. Every Alien in the room soon was falling under the fake floor and into a giant room, where hundreds of tentacles came out of the darkness and began attacking and killing the Aliens one by one.
The Gravemind wouldn't be defeated so easily.
Canyon Valley
The Queen was getting frustrated, how is it she couldn't defeat these three; even with her Ravagers…they still didn't kill the ones that needed to be killed.
She attacked the three and they jumped out of the way, Nek'ttir teleported them to the top and the Queen began to climb the top.
"Nek'ttir…why not just teleport us to the other side?" Gonama'ee asked.
"I can't teleport all of the remaining forces, so some one would be sacrificed, and we don't need any more deaths."
Master Chief looked down to see the Queen coming.
"I'll stay and keep her busy while you guys go on ahead. I'll hold her off."
"Are you sure? Once we're over I can teleport you over once everyone else is over…" Nek'ttir said.
"That Queen will just keep coming after us, and someone has to kill her and/or stall her long enough for the rest of you to activate the bomb."
"But we need you're A.I. to get inside."
"Brian…come here."
"Cortana, make sure he stays alive…he'll deliver you to the objective."
He agreed and he took Cortana and placed it her and put him in her head. Nek'ttir prepared to teleport the others except Gonama'ee.
"Arbiter?" Master Chief asked.
"She's killed too many of my people as well…I won't let her live."
Nek'ttir looked back and teleported the remaining group to the other side just as the Queen put a clawed hand on the cliff face. Nek'ttir then reappeared next to Master Chief and the Arbiter.
"We won't let her live anymore. I've told the others to contact us once the ship has been rigged to self destruct."
"Then let's get her."
Master Chief noticed the dots that were the other group heading for the ship.
"Good luck…" he heard Kelly over the COM.
Master Chief then turned off his COM link then looked back at the other two warriors.
Then the Queen got on her feet at the top of the cliff.
"I will kill each and every last one of you…"
She charged them, digging her claws in the side of the cliff and hurling a boulder at them. They dodged and ran towards her, Nek'ttir powering a psychic beam, Master Chief pulling out Natus'ii's sword, and Gonama'ee bearing his claws and teeth. She lunged with her tail. Nek'ttir dodged, Gonama'ee caught it and hung on, and Master Chief jumped to her left and sliced it down the center as her blood shot out.
Nek'ttir shot the beam at her face, temporarily blinding her, and Gonama'ee stuck his claws in her side, while Master Chief climbed her back. She shook them off and grabbed Master Chief in one hand and Gonama'ee in another. She threw them into separate rocks and looked back to find Nek'ttir running at her with a psychic spear. He threw it and it stuck in her headpiece.
She let out a war cry and her tail lashed out. It grabbed Nek'ttir's leg and she pulled off the ground and over her head and into the ground on her other side, slamming him down as she did so. Several bones were heard cracking inside Nek'ttir, and she did it again and threw him over her other shoulder. She let go and he landed on the cliff edge. She came over and kicked him off into a cliff side and he fell and tumbled to the bottom.
She then turned to Master Chief who ran at her and she swiped at him with her tail. He jumped over and Gonama'ee took the hit. He went flying and couldn't get back up for his leg was badly wounded. He began to spit a Hive Node to heal on but the Queen quickly crushed it.
"You will not get a second chance." she said menacingly into his mind.
Master Chief had a surprise for her, he had taken a Rocket he found at the Crash site and used it to blast her right in the face. Just then, Nek'ttir could be heard climbing the wall and managed a hand on the cliff edge. Master Chief went to him and pulled him up. And the Queen got up and hit Master Chief.
Master Chief got up and she charged him and he did her.
They collided and as the dust cleared, Master Chief could be seen underneath her with his sword implanted in her stomach. Master Chief moved out of the way as she let out a cry of pain and stumbled back, and she lost her footing on the cliff and fell off, and landed on her back. Dead.
Master Chief got Nek'ttir up and at that moment Brian called in.
"John…she's uploaded and the thing's active, we've got fifteen minutes to get off this ring. But how do we get off this ring?"
Master Chief then looked down in his visor.
"Some Spartans died for a greater cause…looks like if we die, everything else on this ring will die with us…sacrifices have to made at times…"
Nek'ttir looked on the to the Master Chief and John picked up Gonama'ee and put him on his back, with Gonama'ee arm's around John's neck.
"Chief…there is some strange ship still docked in this old one…if we can get to it in time…"
"Go…we'll try to catch up…if we don't get there before the counter reaches five minutes…head off without us."
"Acknowledged…" Cortana said, downtrodden.
The group at the ship made their way to the ship bay.
Nek'ttir teleported the three to the other side, but then felt dizzy.
"I don't think I can attempt that again, we'll need to run to the ship from here."
"Fine…let's go." Master Chief said as they began to run.
After a while of running, they got to the entrance of the ship.
"Chief…7:42 left on the timer…hurry up!" Brian shouted over the COM.
Master Chief and the others found the docking bay.
"Five minutes!"
"Go! Now!"
"But your right there!"
"We'll try to make it, just go if we don't."
The doors began to slowly close in the odd ship still docked. Nek'ttir and Master Chief jumped, but was grabbed and thrown to the ground.
"YOU WILL NOT ESCAPE ME!" the Queen shouted.
"How are you still alive!" Gonama'ee shouted.
The ship's door closed all the way and it began to lift off. Turaga'uu at the helm.
"Go now…we cannot open the door again!" Natus'ii shouted as they began to leave the docking bay.
"But what about John and the others!" Kelly yelled at him.
"We have no choice…Master Chief was right…some sacrifices must be made for the greater good.
"Nek'ttir…John…and Gonama'ee…will always be remembered…" Brian said as they left the ship and broke into the atmosphere.
Back on the ground in the hangar bay, the Queen was badly injured, but she still held herself strong.
Master Chief looked at Nek'ttir and Gonama'ee, who had used the time to create himself a Hive Node and heal himself back to full.
"Hey guys…what do you think can kill a Queen faster in five minutes? A Predator, Elite, and Spartan, or a massive explosion?" Nek'ttir said humorously.
"Let's find out…" Gonama'ee said slowly.
Then they charged the Queen as she did them.
The ring blew a few minutes later…
Out in space
The ship that carried the remaining group flew to Earth to await the ceremonies that would await them at home when they would hear of the destruction of the Covenant and Rings. But the three greatest would always remembered in stories told in old.
End Chapter Eleven
A/N: Well, what do you think? Great ending to a great story. Did Master Chief and the others survive the explosion did like Sergeant Johnson did in the first Halo game? (I still don't know how he did.) Well you'll find out when I post the epilogue if they lived or not, and what will happen when the heroes get back to Earth.